Peter Hoskin

Could a Brown-Darling split undermine Labour’s economic message?

The latest official borrowing statistics were released earlier today, and – thanks to a few revisions, detailed by Paul Waugh here – they’re slightly lower than you might expect.  Not that the numbers aren’t still massive.  Public sector net borrowing between April and October stood at £37 billion – bringing the total over the economic cycle up to £640.9

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